DEAR COLLEAGUES,

You are invited to the 27th annual EFI European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference in Maastricht the Netherlands, 11-14 May 2013. This year, the excellent scientific and educational program has been extended with interactive “meet-the-speaker” sessions, master classes and industrial focussed symposia.

Interaction, collaboration, and exchange of knowledge are the keys to success in science and diagnostics and bring you a lot of fun. The social program offers you possibilities to interact in a relaxed atmosphere by joining us during excursions to abbeys enjoying Belgian beers, mountain-bike tours, shopping, city tours and much more in the “Zuid Limburg, the bright site of life” area. The dinner party allows you to enjoy a sensational evening with live music.

The spacious EXPO foyer offers many possibilities for commercial exhibition, commercial break-out rooms, poster exhibition and lunches will be served there; an excellent possibility to meet the industrial partners, your colleagues and old friends and to make new connections.

Visit our conference website regularly, join us on Facebook and LinkedIn or follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date, and enjoy the scientific program, the educational sessions, industrial focussed symposia, master classes and meet-the-speaker sessions and, last but not least, Maastricht, with its more than 400 restaurants, exclusive shopping areas, churches, bars and clubs.

We welcome you to Maastricht, the Netherlands.

The EFI annual meeting 2013 steering committee

Marcel G.J. Tilanus and Junior Lardy, co-chairs

Eric Spierings and Bouke Hepkema